Re: Corporate sponsorships (a la Plone/Zope/CA)
Helge Hess <[email protected]>
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On Jun 17, 2004, at 23:35, Michael Brown wrote: > Hopefully, that might change in the near future, since > the majority of the competition is getting FOSS > friendly (Sun, Novell, CA, etc.) Apple certainly is FOSS friendly - but it is also primarily a hardware company, not a service/software company like Novell or IBM. So a much different focus. > They might be able to sell more X-Serves if they had an exchange killer > pre-loaded on it. If it is ready and finished, certainly. > Maybe those Apple folks need to subscribe to the Porting mailing list, > or keep an eye on the Porting page. There is Apple staff subscribed to the porting list. And I know several people at Apple who would like to see OGo fully supported on OSX. However this doesn't change that there are no funds for such things ;-) > With that BIG Munich switch to > Linux, Apple might see this as a chance to revisit > customers who used to have Macs before PC's and MS > proliferated. In this context it would be more important for Apple to support OpenOffice.org on MacOSX, since OSX certainly has the advantages on the client, not on the server. Nothing is happening there either, maybe there is some kind of deal with Microsoft to ensure that Office is available ;-) > One would think that it would be to their benefit to > help out with something. I guess they don't know a > good thing when the see it... or their iPods are > turned up to loud, and they can't think straight! ;-) Well, we shouldn't try to tell Apple how to do their business ;-) They are doing great stuff and commercially well. At the same time they are very FOSS friendly, which I do appreciate. Greets, Helge -- http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/helge/ OpenGroupware.org -- OpenGroupware.org Discussion [email protected] http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss